Subject: Re: patches to fix make -j
To: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/17/2003 20:23:57
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, James Chacon wrote:
> Unless your Makefiles have been tuned for -j it's likely to break as -j
> means dependencies can be built in any order. So without .WAIT's in
> correct places it's unlikely to "do the right thing" in a lot of cases.
>
> Do you remember specific breakage? This one is mostly fixing the "doesn't
> always stop the make when an error comes up" one.
I don't remember what exactly happened, but it even did so with -j1.
- Hubert
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